Monty Python - Blackmail
Send money to this address - Sorry just realised how awful the quality is on this one. ill repost it when i can be arsed.
What is the crime called when a person wants money to assure you receive promised benefits?
My boss wanted a lump sum < $30,000 he called a loan. He was the one that was meeting with upper management about my company caused injury and disability. I was not allowed to attend the meetings. After I refused to fork over the money, my benefits were flimsy. This was a job with the federal government at a nuclear facility.
Extortion is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person either obtains money or property from another through coercion or intimidation or threatens one with physical harm unless they are paid money or property. Euphemistically, refraining from doing harm is sometimes called protection. Extortion is commonly practiced by organized crime groups. The actual obtainment of money or property is not required to commit the offense. Making a threat of violence or a lawsuit which refers to a requirement of a payment of money or property to halt future violence or lawsuit is sufficient to commit the offense. The simple four words "pay up or else" are sufficient to commit the crime of extortion. An extortionate threat made to another in jest is still the crime of extortion. Extortion may also be committed as a federal crime across a computer system, phone, by mail or in using any instrument of "interstate commerce". Extortion requires that the individual sent the message "willingly" and "knowingly" as elements of the crime. The message only has to be sent (but does not have to reach the intended recipient) to commit the crime of extortion.
Extortion is distinguished from blackmail. In blackmail, the blackmailer threatens to do something which would be legal or normally allowed unless paid money or property.
Extortion is distinguished from robbery. In robbery, the offender steals goods from the victim whilst threatening him with immediate force. In extortion, the victim willingly turns the goods over to avoid a threatened later violence or other harm.
The term extortion is often used metaphorically to refer to usury or to price-gouging, though neither is legally considered extortion. It is also often used loosely to refer to everyday situations where one person feels indebted against their will, to another, in order to receive an essential service or avoid legal consequences. For example, certain lawsuits, fees for services such as banking, automobile insurance, gasoline prices, and even taxation, have all been labelled "extortion" by people with various social or political beliefs.
Extortion currently carries up to a maximum prison sentence of 20 years in most states and under Federal law.
China police probing into murders of mentally disabled for blackmail
CHENGDU, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Chinese police have arrested nine people suspected of trafficking mentally disabled people from Leibo County in southwest China' Sichuan Province to other areas and then murdering them in coal mines to blackmail the mine owners, police said Wednesday.
The nine have been arrested in Leibo County in connection with the murders in nine provinces including Hebei, Fujian, Liaoning and Sichuan, said Ye Jianhua, head of the Leibo County¡¯s Public Security Bureau.
This was the first time the police revealed the cases.
One of the suspects surnamed Feng allegedly colluded with another two to batter Zhang, a mentally disabled person, to death with a stone in an iron mine in eastern Fujian Province on April 28.
By making the murder look like an accident, Feng asked for compensation from mine owners saying he was the victim's "relative",
Robert Halderman's New Strategy in Letterman Blackmail Case: The ...
Robert Halderman, the alleged "mastermind" of a $2 million extortion plot against David Letterman, is just throwing everything at the legal wall at this point.
The CBS News producer is using the Tiger Woods scandal as a precedent to fight the charges against him, which could land him in jail for years if convicted.
Halderman's lawyer, Gerald Shargel, notes in legal papers that when news of Tiger's infidelity surfaced, mistress Rachel Uchitel reportedly signed a multi-million dollar settlement in return for her silence, with the help of Gloria Allred.
Shargel notes , admiringly, "Their behavior was capitalist, not criminal."
The lawyer says Robert Halderman , who is reportedly seeking a plea deal in the case, merely "offered to sell a very marketable story" of Letterman sleeping with Stephanie Birkitt, and that it was a simple business transaction.
Shargel says that celebrity misdeeds have "significant fair market value" and they are "routinely suppressed through private business arrangements."
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Blackmail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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blackmail ( ) n. Extortion of money or something else of value from a person by the threat of exposing a criminal act or discreditable information
Blackmail (1929)
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Information about blackmail in the free online English dictionary and ... black·mail (blkml) n. 1. a. Extortion of money or something else of value from a person ...
